Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

PETA objects to these experiments and commented on TAMU’s social media pages. TAMU claims that PETA’s comments were “spam” that violated TAMU’s social media policy. Banks appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Texas A&M (TAMU) does medical experiments on dogs.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

billion according to the 2020 Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey commissioned by American Express. Get free Small Business Saturday marketing materials ?- including sample posters, and social media resources . SBA's social media guide. Historically, reported projected spending among U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Consumers rely on news and social media information more than ever — and they need to be able to trust the information they consume. Widely available technology and social media platforms have made it easy to alter actual photos and distribute false or misleading stories whose content seems plausible.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2022

Rhode-NYC argues that Hailey Bieber’s use of her middle name “Rhode” as the name of her skin care brand is creating market confusion and potential harm to its goodwill and reputation. Hailey Bieber leverage d her fame and social media following, and that of her husband Justin Bieber’, to immediately establish her brand.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms. Content creators.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. In March 2020, plaintiffs began to have concerns about defendants’ loyalties to the business. 1459 (2014); Zoe Argento, Whose Social Network Account? See generally, Christopher A.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

2020), aff’d , 851 F. Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? AOL, 318 F.3d 3d 465, 472 (3d Cir. 2003); Winter v.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms. Content creators.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 14, 2022

As part of ongoing probes into anti-trust practices, the SIC recommended the regional spirit manufacturer who set the discount caps in Antioquia, to implement compliance programs in order to prevent the risk of restricting free competition, specifically as it relates to Colombian Technical Standard CTS 6378/2020. 07/14/22 – Corporate.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Initially filed in August 2020, the complaint targeted five ‘doe’ defendants, together doing business as Universe IPTV and Universe TV. In December 2020, DISH’s first amended complaint named three people as the alleged operators of Universe IPTV – Mohamed Omar, Hossam Abd Elghany, and Moustafa Maatouk.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). Comments to the CPPA’s Proposed Regulations Pursuant to the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020, Aug. Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws? Analysis of CA AB587).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In March 2020, she contracted a respiratory illness. The court agrees, in an opinion filled with numerous gems and zingers supporting free speech, such as: “Even if short and often grammatically scurrilous, social media posts do not fall outside the ambit of the First Amendment. She posted on Instagram that she had COVID.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s principal testified that he continued developing a new version of the Bike+ app from 2017 until 2020, writing “over 2.4 In mid-July 2020, Apple released a new operating system that introduced a bug; in September, he reported this bug to Apple. After an inquiry, Apple confirmed in December 2020 that the bug was fixed.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2023

In March 2020, the Kenya Copyright Board announced that it had launched the ‘Partners Against Piracy Campaign’ describing it as a “multi-stakeholder” awareness program. This WeCast product was marketed towards the hotel market at some point but regardless of location or content, functionality doesn’t change.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

And finally, on July 21, 2020—two months before Plaintiff’s subscription would renew—Defendant sent him an email reminder that he had to cancel his subscription if he did not want the automatic renewal to occur. SayGames LLC, 2020 WL 379165 (N.D. Voodoo SAS v.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 19, 2023

According to the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport report on influencer culture , the global sector is expected to grow from $6.0 billion in 2020 to $24.1 Influencer marketing offers brands a unique opportunity to target and connect with online communities, using a personalized approach.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It submitted 14 social media posts “which it contends shows consumers and retailers attributed a particular source to Defendants’ liquor and Plaintiff’s television show.” But Mandabach waited until November 2020 to sue and moved for a preliminary injunction only in March 2021. Anyway, Mandabach also didn’t show likely confusion.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2023

During the summer, President Putin signed off on legal amendments that will require some internet platforms, including social networks, to verify new users’ identities, in some cases using their passports. The latter may take some time to emerge but in the meantime, Russia is attempting to remove as many as possible from the market.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 23, 2024

Tracking carried out by Digital Policy from 2020 currently shows 593 policy changes around the world, with the closely-linked platform intermediary / user-generated content category at 497. In 2019, advertising that promoted games with cash prizes was outlawed on TV, radio, in print, on social media, and all other internet platforms.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. In these cases the Authors Guild says that pressure needs to be applied to search engines including market leader Google.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2022

art market, the Report concluded that there was no immediate need to impose new regulations on the art market to combat money laundering and terrorism finance. Yet the Report also discussed how the art market remains susceptible to money laundering and describes how market participants can minimize this risk. Background.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The study represents the second phase of a project already started in 2019, which led to the publication of its first phase named " Automated Content Recognition: Existing technologies and their impact on IP " in November 2020.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 6, 2022

Founded in 2012 as a multi-level marketing company (“MLM”) selling women’s clothing, LuLaRoe reached 80,000 distributors by 2017. Throughout this blog post, I take a legal look at both multi-level marketing companies and their close relation to pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes. MLMs are nothing new.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 8, 2022

Merpel and TechieKat Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo reported on a March 2021 decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal ( R 1996/2020-5 ) of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) that answers this question. TRADE MARKS Remember the James Bond theme? Is it "too long" to be registered as a sound mark?

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

The power of the internet, in particular that of social media is humungous. When used strategically, social media becomes one of the most powerful tools of digital marketing. With the evolution of social media, the concept of moment marketing has also become increasingly common.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And it was acknowledged that there are issues with this; with 2 million units of counterfeit goods having been destroyed by just Amazon, in 2020 alone. Goods placed on the market in the EU are deemed to have exhausted trade mark rights for the purposes of the UK, but not the other way round. Largely, these are destroyed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2024

In 2020, Facebook banned them as hate speech when the images “caricature” black people. ” Today’s case involves the racial discrimination complaints of Thompson, an African-American employee at the photo repository ShutterStock, especially in the emotionally raw aftermath following the 2020 George Floyd murder.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Following the 2020 report, several of the mentioned pirate sites and services have disappeared. Since then, the company is no longer labeled a ‘notorious market’ Other sites and services have also dropped off the list. Social media. For this article, however, we will mainly focus on pirate sites and services.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It serves as an essential element in making up the brand identity, customer loyalty, and market differentiation. It gives the respective companies a competitive edge in a saturated market. Trademarks can be very important for businesses entering new markets. Trademarks encompass a substantial portion of the deal’s value.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Media Maverick Without the benefit of such foresight, Merrell continued to run a school during the day and began reselling Flawless subscriptions on the side. By now operating under the name Media Maverick on social media, customers hoping to watch Sky TV and BT Sport were in plentiful supply.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 27, 2021

Zoom: The 2020 Icon of Remote Work. Zoom, an all-time favourite, recently agreed to pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit over claims of violating users’ privacy rights through unconsented sharing of personal information with social media platforms including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

“Identifying content of social media users requires monitoring third-party content. Airbnb appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Snap’s liability involves a straightforward application of Section 230: ICS Provider. Not disputed. Publisher/Speaker Claims. ” Third-Party Content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Some interesting discussion on the use of Google and Twitter to determine genericness: Plaintiffs also offered evidence of Google searches and social media mentions on Twitter to support their position that PRETZEL CRISPS is not generic. Whole Foods Market Service, Inc., A company used [competitortrademark].com

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In the wake of the 2020 Lukis v. For example, if a third-party poster copies a newspaper article and posts it to their social media page, the court implies that the social media service can never assert Section 230 protection for that article–even if the third-party poster isn’t infringing copyright because of, say, fair use.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

But unlike those cases, this one was first filed way back in 2020, before generative AI was poised to change the world (and also before it was spitting out fake cat videos and telling us to put glue on pizza ). Thomson Reuters contends that Ross’s tool was designed to compete directly with Westlaw, targeting the same legal market.

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